From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H7ydk-0003AO-CE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:39:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0JIavQJ004698; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:36:57 GMT Received: from aa014msr.fastwebnet.it (aa014msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0JIU7x3020567 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:30:07 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa014msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 45A58F3C00777A1B for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:30:02 +0100 Message-ID: <45B11EA5.9030301@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:40:21 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070108) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 492bb57b-3ed5-4b64-8fc9-ddf732a07e53 X-Archives-Hash: fd48eb55f53ae73928ebe4a9512c77ad Vlad Dogaru ha scritto: > Hello, > > I am recently growing fed up with strongly graphical applications > causing my (admittedly quite old) computer to slow down to a crawl. I > like the concept of Ratpoison and am thinking of switching to it, but > could use a few tips for making the big change. Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you often do something quite computationally intensive. > I am especially looking for a browser to substitute Firefox (it's great, > but quite a memory hog). I like links, what with its graphical > capabilities, but it lacks tabs and that's a major downside in my > vision. I've tried Conkeror for Firefox, but it's too Emacs-centric (vim > person here) and also disables tabs (or maybe it's me -- I couldn't get > them to work). Did you try Dillo? I don't know if it has tabs but it seems *very* lightweight. Otherwise maybe Opera? people insist in saying it's really fast and light (and has tabs:as a matter of fact, Opera invented them!), but I personally don't know. > Any other tips or nifty programs you could link me to would be greatly > appreciated, especially Ratpoison-related; For instance, C-t is too > RSI-prone for my taste and conflicts with Firefox's new tab button (I > want to switch, but I realise fx could prove irreplaceable, mainly due > to the large userbase). Try to see what purposely lightweight distros like DamnSmallLinux, VectorLinux and Puppy Linux install by default, I think you'll have a good choice of lightweight packages. However as far as concerning ratpoison, I know nothing... > How's my English? How about my Netiquette? > Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. This is going to be the best sign of 2007 :) - I really appreciate this kind of approach. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list